Couple of friends and I started a book club reading in New York City. We decided to read a book each month and talk about the book when we gather next time. The rule is whomever is hosting the book reading night next time can recommend books and we vote and decide which one to read. I was the first host so I recommended couple of books and eventually we picked “Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wild. This Monday we will be talking about “on the Road”.
“on the road” a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1957. Mostly it is autobiography of his trips cross United State with his friends from Columbia University., experiencing life, drug, sex, poetry, etc…For me not familiar with American history especially during depression, after depression, and hippies this is a great book to start learning about all these. The book considered as postwar beat generation who inspired by poetry, jazz, drug and sex.
Jack and his friends are studied in Columbia University in New York; he is creator of the beat generation who they want to live. The philosophy behind it was I am poor so everything belongs to me. They belong to post war period (Second World War) which Jack and his friends mostly came back from. This is the period people started migrate to the suburb of the cities and owning affordable house, having wife and kids considered as an ideal life. Jack Kerouac and his friends on the other hand didn’t considered it as an ideal life(American Dream in 1960) and decided to live and experienced all they could in life and started with visiting different cities in America. Cars and using the car was a luxury and most people couldn’t afford buying tickets for train or bus so they ended up hitchhiking or using car services(which you drove the car or pooling car with other people to share the gas) and living on the road.
Sal Paradise represents Jack Kerouac an innocent writer who wants to experience the life. The fear of the death and not having much time to live he decides to live by experiencing as much as could. Seems the beat generation has only one ideology and that is life and the holly and precious life and maybe that’s explains the madness of Dean who wanted to leave and do everything he could in a short period of time. Fear of death and loosing all and being buried in a cemetery in gloomy suburb.
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